December 21 2012 Russian Culture Newsletter

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The Death of the USSR
The Soviet Union or USSR – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- disintegrated and died a slow death on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991. On this day, Gorbachev resigned, and the country dissolved into fifteen separate countries after seven decades of communism.